The Ill-Tempered Synthesizer

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2024-04-12 22:10:16

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Thread confirming your worst suspicions and then some.

2024-03-26 17:17:44

Unbelievable that even the US Congress could be this short-sighted.
#SaveChandra
https://www.savechandra.org/

2024-03-25 06:07:58

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@npub13vq…06zw
A friend of mine who was being stalked on the bird site was followed over here by the same guy.
She's off all the socials now.

2024-03-18 00:51:37

We all realize that "I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath" is a threat, right?
Lock this guy up.

2024-03-12 23:47:30

In the 80s I worked in a building with a then-novel open office plan. The co. used white noise to dampen sound. I could feel it pressing on my pineal gland (I swear). Leaving the building was like coming up from underwater. I should have quit that job for a number of reasons.
https://boingboing.net/2024/03/12/white-noise-could-be-damaging-your-brain-study.html

2024-02-11 02:36:44

NYT: "Both Donald J. Trump and President Biden are over 75. But voters are much less likely to worry that Mr. Trump is too old to serve."
Because the media loves Tr*mp, who drives more clicks.

2024-01-31 03:02:26

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@npub1qag…9gyn @npub132h…f594 The swastika bros only THINK they know what fanaticism is.

2024-01-25 02:19:25

Been listening to the Beatles' BBC sessions. There's at least an old-school LP's worth of amazing covers that never made it to their earlier albums.

2024-01-25 02:06:51

Your customer disloyalty to HP has been noted.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/813/906/204/442/775/original/43a70484811bf48a.png

2024-01-15 21:06:34

#WritersCafe #writerslife
This SF short-story contest, "AI Mythology," may be of interest to some:
https://parsec-sff.org/short-story-contest/?sender_ctype=email&sender_campaign=bqXg2y&sender_customer=MQA2G8Q

2024-01-10 19:22:29

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@npub1psd…9sr7
It's always worse than we thought.

2024-01-04 17:59:42

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@npub1hyk…3p33
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/698/741/141/467/809/original/1f4cbc531d3828a7.jpg

2023-12-29 20:36:00

NY Times guy: “Tr*mp should not be disqualified because of an ambiguous clause.”
Saying you can’t hold a national office if you “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” doesn’t strike me as ambiguous, but thanks for the gaslight, pal.

2023-12-23 00:34:26

Not clear on how disqualifying a candidate for an insurrection, as it says in the Constitution, endangers any “fundamental values,” there, @npub12lx…3d95

2023-12-22 04:13:07

The oligarchs want us to be disgusted with politics.
They love that Tr*mp makes it so nasty.
They love that people say "plague on both your houses" and tune out.
They don't have to suppress votes that aren't cast.

2023-10-14 05:07:40

"Why People Love to Watch Influencers Get Punched In the Face"
Today in our week-long series on the self-explanatory.

2023-10-08 18:31:00

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Jeff Zucker gave away the game in ‘16, if I recall.
Tr*mp might be bad for the country, but he’s good for ratings.
They made their choice a long time ago.

2023-10-07 22:32:49

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 It’s almost as if they love him and want him back in the Oval Office.

2023-10-07 17:10:57

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@npub1z24…mvj9 And if she were…?

2023-10-04 01:42:48

Now we see the motive behind Elons' brain implant. It's to take stuff out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/business/training-repayment-agreement-debt.html

2023-09-29 20:20:44

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@npub17l5…za2f Not much of a believer -- an atheist if you wanna make something of it -- but if you dig metaphor, the Bible is worth a skim.

2023-09-29 20:18:27

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@npub17l5…za2f Now, I'm not the world's most biblical guy, but ... Tower of Babel, anyone?

2023-09-20 02:11:02

Noticing acutely today that if it’s fascist BS it’s free but if you want real news or even nuanced opinion it’s paywalled 9 times of 10.
If only, say, the WaPo was owned by a kajillionaire who could afford to give it away for free.

2023-09-18 05:27:24

Like the conceptual vandals in John Kessel's GOOD NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE: They break into your car and install an expensive stereo:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/15/la-quinta-inn-takeover-documented-by-group-friends-tiktok/70869192007/

2023-09-17 01:42:10

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@npub17sh…6e06 definitely, tho the handle was actually inspired by Walter/Wendy Carlos’s album of Bach on the Moog called The Well-Tempered Synthesizer.

2023-09-16 20:30:56

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@npub17sh…6e06 Amphetamines?:)
This is a movie to watch with the subtitles on.
Somewhat like the early seasons of The West Wing, come to think.
But funnier.

2023-09-16 05:29:59

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@npub17sh…6e06 It's really funny too. Try to keep up with the patter.

2023-09-05 05:10:58

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@npub189n…satx “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion” and all that. Jimmy Carter putting his world-spanning peanut empire in a blind trust. That sort of thing.

2023-08-31 00:40:08

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@npub1ywy…cksd If you remember that, you might remember this:
https://youtu.be/-sraKulMHZw

2023-08-23 21:27:42

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@npub10fm…x0qg Hell is other people's PowerPoints.

2023-08-19 17:04:17

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@npub155h…sn96 @npub1c9e…zhes “Abuse of power comes as no surprise.” — Jenny Holzer, TRUISMS

2023-08-15 17:43:54

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I’m of two minds about that.

2023-08-09 23:52:24

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@npub189n…satx Outdoing even "the meth lab of democracy" (Jon Stewart on Arizona)

2023-08-08 03:53:34

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@npub189n…satx I’m glad you speak up just the same.

2023-08-08 03:47:50

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@npub189n…satx But even if you can’t change the mind of the person you’re addressing, you might be changing the mind of somebody else who’s listening.

2023-08-04 00:01:25

I just watched last night's StoryHour2020, hosted by Dan Marcus & @npub19r8…xa93
A nightmare-inducing serial-killer story by @npub15gn…gx9s & an intriguing visit to a fantasy library by @npub1ded…kx4f
https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Story-Hour/100039975042631/

2023-08-01 21:04:50

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@npub1c9e…zhes Make it not so.

2023-07-26 18:16:04

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@npub189n…satx Yes, but at least Nosferatu had good reasons.

2023-07-16 21:39:36

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@npub18e5…u74q @npub1hyk…3p33 May it help to sell a zillion copies.

2023-07-14 01:20:50

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Shut up and take my money!

2023-07-12 21:34:53

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@npub1h8s…cvp3 I had exactly the same reaction.

2023-07-11 22:21:08

Signed up to help flip the House.
It takes some patience, but that's how we kept Mark Kelly and got Katie Hobbs instead of Kari Lake.
https://mobilize.us/s/xvGPvC

2023-07-11 04:34:55

More like this, Democrats:
“I use the words ‘MAGA fascists’ because it’s the truth. These people are not Grand Old Party Republicans; they are MAGA fascists.
“There is no reason for me to call them by anything other than what they are. If they feel a little sensitive about that, then maybe they ought to reconsider their position vis-a-vis American democracy and stop acting like fascists.”
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2023/07/05/adrian-fontes-stephen-richer-antidote-kari-lake/70382321007/

2023-07-10 19:23:04

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@npub1c9e…zhes More like this, Democrats.

2023-07-01 00:49:57

All leaving aside that we have lifetime appointees openly taking bribes and practically daring us to do something about it.

2023-06-20 19:06:30

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@npub1k0f…zlnk @npub1v4w…ag40
Today's Doonesbury rerun from 1998 feels strangely relevant in this context:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/doonesbury/strip/archive/2023/6/20

2023-06-13 22:18:04

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 @npub1crl…mv08 I hoped for, but hardly expected, a tracker on his ankle.

2023-06-13 22:12:06

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@npub1c9e…zhes "If a corporation is a person, then what *kind* of a person is it?"

2023-06-09 04:51:09

Seems insane to me that the Times can quote MTG, Gym Jordan, or Matt “Beavis” Gaetz without mentioning how compromised they are.
They wouldn’t hold back for a Democrat.

2023-05-25 02:33:32

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@npub17ha…t8va I understand we pay him to launch rockets too.

2023-05-23 04:10:25

Someone on Mastodon recently said one of the scariest things about being in the middle of a fascist takeover is that so many people don’t seem to realize we are in the middle of a fascist takeover.

2023-05-23 03:49:40

From what now.
https://physicsworld.com/a/a-transistor-made-from-wood/?Campaign+Owner=&utm_campaign=14290-55550&utm_content=Title%3A%20A%20transistor%20made%20from%20wood%20-%20Editors_pick&utm_term=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iop

2023-05-17 04:05:53

Ok, enough socials for a bit. Take care, all.

2023-05-16 20:55:24

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 If this was another country we'd call it a failed state.

2023-05-12 01:49:47

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@npub1lrv…tth9 CNN practically invented “news as entertainment” with a show called Crossfire, which if memory serves was cohosted by one Tucker Carlson.

2023-05-07 20:06:18

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 This whole thread it spot-on.
If journalists can’t cover Tr*mp as a clear & present threat to democracy, then what is journalism for? Why do people do it?

2023-04-22 23:42:11

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#[0] I catch myself doomscrolling, and this is what I get. This is heartbreaking, horrible, and infuriating.
We need a zero-tolerance policy for Nazi philosophy, practice, symbols, imagery.

2023-04-20 22:59:48

When I was a kid I read NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell.
It gave me nightmares and traumatized me for life.
Thank God nobody tried to protect my fragile eggshell mind.

2023-04-20 18:51:55

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#[0] #[1] Same. This is excellent.
Imagine using your tv perch to actually inform people about stuff.